The links below are listed chronologically such that information on our most recent activities appears first. Persons visiting this site for the first time and interested in understanding the background of the problem may wish to move to the bottom of the list and begin reading there.
Appeal rejected, July 5, 2004
[Summary and Link]
Hostile verdict, December 18, 2002
[Article]
Testifying in a Japanese courtroom, March 1, 2002
[Article]
Arudo Debito on RKK radio, February 28, 2002
[Announcement (E/J)]
Symposium held on February 1, 2002
[Announcement (E/J)]
[About speaker Arudo Debito]
[Links to more information about speakers]
[Speaker Ivan Hall on local radio]
[Statement about juminhyo read by speaker Lucinda Otsuka (English)]
[Statement about juminhyo read by speaker Lucinda Otsuka (Japanese)]
Submission of 10,330 signatures, February 1, 2001
[Report]
10,000 signatures collected, August 20, 2001
[Announcement]
Dan Kirk article "Limited-Term Appointments and Their Effect on Curriculum Development" made available on June 26, 2001
[Announcement]
Appeal for support (petition), June 23, 2001
[Announcement]
Signature gathering on April 8, 2001
[Announcement]
Article in Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 2001
[Announcement, excerpts and comments]
Spring 2001 Issue of PALE: "Taking it to the Ministry of Education"
Appeal on behalf of Foreign Teachers at the PUK (E/J), February 28, 2001
Plea for Volunteer Translator (J/E), February 8, 2001
Signature gathering on February 4, 2001
[Announcement]
Hearing in which Cynthia Worthington testified, January 31, 2001
[Announcement] [Report by Arudo Debito]
Social gathering on January 29, 2001
[Announcement]
Hearing on January 25, 2001
[Announcement]
Signature gathering on December 17, 2001
[Announcement]
Social gathering on November 27, 2000
[Announcement]
Symposium on November 10, 2000
[Announcement]
First hearing in PUK discrimination case, September 21, 2000
[Announcement]
Social gathering on August 28, 2000
[Announcement]
Gathering and initiation of law suit on July 14, 2000
[Announcement] [Related hearings held that day]
Social gathering on June 26
[Invitation to attend] [Supplementary information] [Report 1] [Report 2]
Delivery of appeal on May 26
[Appeal text] [Report]
Third hearing on May 17, 2000
[Announcement] [Report]
Gatherings and petition delivery on April 6, 2000
[First Japanese announcement] [English translation] [Correction (English and Japanese)]
Delivery to prefectural government of a petition in support of Cynthia Worthington and Sandra Mitchell on March 30, 2000
[English] [Japanese]
Article in Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun published on March 9, 2000
Filing of petition for injunction and gathering held on March 8, 2000
[English invitation to attend] [Corrected inviation] [English and Japanese announcement] [Additional announcement with contact information]
Article in Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun published on February 24, 2000
Gathering held on February 15, 2000
[English] [Japanese]
Gathering signatures on December 12, 1999
[Invitation] [Report]
Letter to New York Times from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (dated November 22, 1999)
"Combatting Discrimination at a Japanese University" by Cynthia Worthington
(JPRI Working Paper No. 58: June 1999)
English translation of Feb 19, 1999 newspaper article
The Ministry of Education takes a dim view of PUK mendacity!
New Observer Article (January 1999)
New Observer Article (July 1998)
PUK's place of dishonor on the BLACKLIST OF JAPANESE UNIVERSITIES